Thanks for your report. It succeeded to grab some high-res frames of the spectacular pass! Apparent speed was very high as you mentioned, making it not easy to capture at this scale. I just quickly inspected the video and all I can say is; I'm amazed at how comparable its appearance looks to my earlier USA-161 observations! Also this time, I captured a flare. Great advance over the USA-161 images is the close distance of 300 km. I expect to process the images tomorrow and I will include again a video-animation. Best wishes, Ralf ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marco Langbroek" <marco.langbroek@wanadoo.nl> To: "Ralf Vandebergh" <ralf.vandebergh@home.nl>; <seesat-l@satobs.org> Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2010 10:10 PM Subject: Re: high res images USA-129 at near perigeum > Op 5-9-2010 15:19, Ralf Vandebergh schreef: > > I see I will even have a more favorable opportunity this evening. This time > > it's closest distance will be 304 km, that's considerably closer then the > > ISS can get. > > I just observed it visually, and it was spectacular: going through the zenit, > bright (mag 0) and very fast! In fact, impossible to get a full trail inside my > 50mm lens frame, the trail is too long during a 10s exposure!. > > - Marco > > > ----- > Dr Marco Langbroek - SatTrackCam Leiden, the Netherlands. > e-mail: sattrackcam@wanadoo.nl > > Cospar 4353 (Leiden): 52.15412 N, 4.49081 E (WGS84), +0 m ASL > Cospar 4354 (De Wilck): 52.11685 N, 4.56016 E (WGS84), -2 m ASL > SatTrackCam: http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek/satcam.html > Station (b)log: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com > ----- > _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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